Camera tracking software with hardware acceleration

#1

Hi, can anyone tell me if any of camera tracking software has a hardware acceleration?

#2

Does OpenGL or GL mean the same thing or something different? I remember most tracking packages has OpenGL compatible graphics card as a requirement. Though boujou 5 seems to have an option called “Use Hardware OpenGL”

What is Hardware Acceleration anyways?

#3

Sorry if I wasn’t precise but English is not my first language and hardware acceleration was the best term I’ve found. By that I mean that the calculations (e.g. tracking or camera solving) are sent to be done on GPU.

#4

GPU processing (CUDA or OpenCL) is great if you can break down the task into dozen/hundreds of small but repetitive tasks/code pieces. this works great for rendering, but it doubt that all code is transferable to be GPU optimized.

#5

Most of the processing time spent tracking is the I/O speed of loading the frames. GPU acceleration won’t help much.

#6

Thanks for your replies, you helped me to understand it.